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It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 19
Died: 1917
Died: September 27
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Draftsperson
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Paris
France
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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
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If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
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He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
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And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
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The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
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I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
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I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
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